ASRock has rather silently announced its new motherboard based on AMD's A88X chipset for AMD socket FM2+ APUs and CPU, the ASRock A88M-ITX/ac.

Based on a standard mini-ITX form-factor and featuring support for AMD's socket FM2+ APUs and CPUs with 95W TDP, the new ASRock A88M-ITX/ac packs quite a few decent features on a small form-factor, including integrated 802.11ac dual-band WiFi and an M.2 slot.

The board has a a 5-phase CPU VRM drawing power from a combination of 24-pin ATX and single 8-pin EPS 12V connectors and comes with two DIMM slots with support for 32GB of DDR3-2400 memory as well as a a single PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot.

MSI has launched an interesting little FM2+ board. The MSI A88XI AC is based on AMD’s A88X chipset and it’s one of few FM2+ boards in the mITX world.

The Kaveri loving board is feature packed, with dual-band 802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 4.0 and a range of other handy features. It has VGA, DVI-D and HDMI 1.4a video outputs and if that’s not enough there’s a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. There’s also a PCIe Mini Card, but it’s used for the WiFi/Bluetooth module.

The board also has two external USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, S/PDIF, four SATA 6Gbps ports and a single mSATA port.

The board is already listed in Euroland and the lowest list price is €82 in Germany, although other retailers are placing it north of €90.

Motherboard makers aren’t having a good year, but Gigabyte seems to be doing quite well, as it’s bucking negative trends and gaining market share.

One interesting product coming out of Gigabyte is a new FM2+ Mini-ITX board with a sweet price tag. The GA-F2A88XN-WIFI is based on AMD’s A88X chipset and it’s feature packed.

It has two DDR3 slots (PC3-17066U), a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot and a PCIe Mini Card slot, which isn’t available as it’s taken up by the WiFi-BT module. The module supports 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.0.

The back features a DVI-D connector, along with two HDMI 1.4a connectors and a couple of USB 3.0 ports and four USB 2.0 ports. On the inside you can access another two USB 3.0 headers and four SATA 6Gbps connectors, along with two 4-pin fan connectors.

There’s clearly no lack of features for any SFF/HTPC lover and the price is pretty good, too. For years motherboard makers were overpricing their high-end mITX boards, but this baby is priced at just €79. The bad news? You still can't buy one, but they should be available in a week or so.